Heavy rainstorms last year cancelled the plans of the DX India Foundation to activate Arnala Island. The island, one of India's most coveted sites in the IOTA programme, carries the designation of AS-169. Sarath, VU2RS, announced recently on the DX World website that he is hoping to bring a three-day activation there starting on the 1st of May. There has been no amateur radio activity on the island since 2006.

A successful activation would not only fulfill one of the relatively new foundation's objectives - to activate rare IOTAs - it would also put Arnala Island in the logs of eager chasers everywhere.